Elder brother's garrison

Xiao Bai was pulled among the children by the older women, and everyone looked at Xiao Bai and the children.

"Gaole, what do you think?" an older woman asked with a smile.

"Okay." Gao Le nodded.

"Xiao Anzi, take a look?" Another middle-aged woman looked at Xu An with a smile.

"Hmph." Xu An snorted lightly, his gaze fixed on Gao Le, who had no expression.

In any case, the makeup session is finally over.

Xiao Bai and a group of children were pushed into a room in the villa. The room seemed to be a hall or similar place. It was a bit narrow and empty, with only a stage platform on the floor and a few chairs below it.

It seemed that someone was already waiting in the chair.

Among the waiting people, some were holding laptops with video calls enabled, some were holding phones, and others had nothing at all, just sitting in chairs with their legs crossed and arms crossed.

Xiao Bai walked up to the platform with the children. She wanted to observe the people in front of her carefully, but just as her gaze swept over the first type of people, the second type of people, and finally the third type of people, Xiao Bai suddenly opened her mouth and stopped walking.

Boom!

The child behind Xiaobai bumped into Xiaobai.

Xiaobai snapped out of her daze, her gaze involuntarily shifting away from the third type of person, and then looking at the child behind her.

"Stop bumping into each other, stand still!"

Xu An shouted coldly from inside the room.

Xiaobai took two steps and arrived at her seat. Then, she looked at the crowd below the stage with a complicated gaze and a strange expression.

Xiaobai didn't recognize those people holding laptops with video calls enabled.

Xiao Bai didn't recognize the people who opened their phones but didn't say a word, just staring at the platform.

But this third type of person...

Xiaobai was at a loss for how to react...

In the audience, on a chair near the corner.

Admiral Haoding sat in his seat with his arms crossed, chest out and head held high. His eyes were wide open, his expression imposing and radiant.

Beside Admiral Haoding, Admirals Lian and Ling were dressed in black and white urban woman outfits. They crossed their smooth, long legs, leaned back in their chairs, and smiled broadly. Their smiles were even more intense when they looked at Xiaobai on the platform, and their red-lipped mouths seemed to stretch to their ears.

Xiao Bai's gaze met that of his three friends.

Xiao Bai clearly saw the "Haha, you've finally met your match" look on Admiral Lian and Admiral Ling's faces.

……

No.

This is a human trafficking base, right?

Why would the top ten admirals...?

As Xiaobai was pondering, her gaze swept across the other corner of the room and landed on Nanxing, who was sitting on the other side with a thin black veil covering her face and dressed in a cool and mature noblewoman's attire, and Missouri and Iowa sitting next to Nanxing with smiles on their faces... Xiaobai seemed to understand a lot all at once.

OK OK.

It's all acquaintances, right?

Xiaobai quickly felt the heat rising in her cheeks; her face was turning red and hot at a visible speed.

"Everyone's here? Let's save time and get started."

From below the stage, Xu An addressed the crowd.

Xu An appeared to be the auctioneer, but it seemed that someone else was actually the auctioneer. Just after Xu An announced the start, a woman in a suit stepped forward and came to the platform.

"Welcome everyone to our latest auction at Meicun." The woman in the suit stood at the front of the stage and greeted the crowd with a smile. "Some of our customers are attending for the first time, while others have had considerable experience dealing with us. Regardless of your means, we believe you will all find the most suitable and desirable child at Meicun. If you don't find one this time, please don't be discouraged. Meicun sincerely welcomes in-depth communication with all our customers, and we believe that one day we can achieve a win-win situation."

After the woman in the suit finished speaking, she turned to the girl on the stage who was furthest away from Xiaobai and spoke to her.

"Item number one, this one is from Yuncheng. As everyone knows, children from Yuncheng are born into wealth and privilege. This is from our Meicun base..."

The woman in the suit beckoned the little girl to her side, then began to introduce her to the crowd below.

The words the woman in the suit used to describe the girl's appearance and figure were, of course, the usual pleasantries. As soon as she finished speaking, the bidding began.

The crowd remained quiet, and no one seemed to speak.

Xiao Bai noticed that, apart from a few friends he recognized, the other customers, who were holding phones and laptops, were talking to each other with their heads down. Then, some words seemed to appear on their laptops, and the people lowered their heads and stopped moving.

Oh……

Judging from this situation, these people must be acting on behalf of someone else.

Xiao Bai thought to himself.

After a half-minute pause, no one bid for the first child. The woman in the suit, without changing her expression, called the child back and then called out the second child.

"Item number two, this little boy comes from Lucky City..."

The woman in the suit addressed the audience again, making her introduction.

However, after the introduction, the scene remained quiet, with everyone staring at the platform without making a move.

The woman in the suit seemed to be losing her composure. She looked down at the first and second children, seemingly thinking that these two children shouldn't be treated this way. Just as she was wondering, Gao Le, who was standing below the stage, suddenly spoke up.

"Let number 15 go first."

Gao Le's voice reached the woman in the suit's ears.

The woman in the suit paused for a moment. She looked at Gao Le with confusion, then turned to look at item number fifteen that Gao Le had mentioned.

Then... the woman in the suit saw Xiaobai.

Oh……

The woman in the suit then realized that it seemed everyone in the room was intentionally or unintentionally focusing their attention on Xiaobai.

The moment she saw Xiaobai, the woman in the suit seemed to understand something. A wry smile of realization appeared on her face, and she then reached out and beckoned to Xiaobai.

"I think we should change the order in which the items are presented in the auction."

The woman in the suit waved her hand, asking all the children except Xiaobai to leave the stage. She then came to Xiaobai's side and addressed the audience.

"This person is from Shenzhen, and is..."

A stark contrast has emerged.

This time, before the woman in the suit could even finish her introduction, a man on the phone eagerly raised his sign.

"Five hundred thousand." The urgent voice came into the room.

"..." A look of surprise flashed across the woman in the suit's eyes. "Good, good, guest number four has already bid 500,000!"

To be fair, 500,000 is far more than the price of selling a child.

Such a price naturally surprised the woman in the suit.

But before she could finish expressing her surprise, Admiral Lian chuckled and raised his hand.

"one million!"

"Great! Great! One million! This young lady has offered one million!!!" the woman in the suit exclaimed in delight.

Everyone in the room looked towards Admiral Lian.

Admiral Lian crossed his legs, his face beaming with a delightful smile.

"Hey, you actually want to take this top-quality item for 500,000? That's too greedy!" Admiral Lian said with a smile.

“That makes sense.” Admiral Ling also raised her hand and said softly, “Then I’ll take two million!”

"Two, two million??"

The woman in the suit was surprised. Was this the price for a human?

"Two million..."

But soon, as Admiral Ling finished speaking, those holding phones and laptops raised their hands.

"Two million five hundred thousand!"

"Two hundred and ten!"

"Two million three hundred thousand!"

"Two and a half million!"

"Two million five hundred and fifty thousand!"

A flurry of exhilarating bidding ensued, with bids rising and falling in waves.

The woman in the suit was grinning from ear to ear.

Gao Le and Xu An, sitting in the audience, seemed to be shocked by the bidding for a moment, and listened quietly with their arms crossed.

This price... is way too high.

It's more like a cultural relic than a person...

Then, at that very moment.

A mature woman with a great figure and dressed in a wealthy lady's attire, her face covered by a black veil, slowly raised her hand.

"Ten million."

The woman's voice was like the triumphant tolling of a bell, instantly silencing everyone in the room and making them quiet down.

Xiao Bai on stage covered his face, his shoulders trembling slightly.

Is this good?

This isn't good...

These days, Xiaobai really wants to burrow into the ground.

Chapter 3705 Buyer

Ten million.

Ten million!

When the mysterious noblewoman's voice, neither too loud nor too soft, appeared at the back of the line and echoed throughout the room, almost all the customers in the room, including the woman in the suit on stage, Xu An, Gao Le, and the other children in the audience, looked at her with extreme shock.

As the one who started demanding such an exorbitant price, the veiled lady remained quietly seated in her place, motionless, completely unaware that she had shocked the entire room. Under everyone's gaze, she slowly lowered her raised hand back to her knees, her eyes, visible through her veil, fixed on Xiaobai on the stage. Her eyes contained no burning desire, but were filled with the self-righteousness of having already taken Xiaobai for herself.

His cool, composed demeanor, as if he had the whole situation under control, made the woman in the suit on stage swallow hard.

"Ten...ten million?" the woman in the suit asked tentatively.

"What, never seen money before?" The veiled lady didn't speak, but Iowa, sitting next to her, smiled and said, "No one can take anything my lady sets her sights on."

"Ah, no... I'm so sorry, I didn't mean that... Well..." The woman in the suit sensed the displeasure of Xu An and Gao Le's gazes on her from below the stage. She immediately realized that her professional skills had failed her, and quickly stammered a couple of times. Then, forcing a smile, she composed herself, glanced around, and continued in a pleasant voice, "A very interesting scene just happened at the auction. It seems everyone is very enthusiastic about item number 15. Yes, item number 15 is the best girl we've encountered since we started operating in Meicun. Now, item number 15 has been bid up to ten million by this lady. Does anyone else want to bid?"

After the woman in the suit finished speaking, the audience fell silent.

Customers who were on the phone or video chatting in their seats kept their heads down and whispered into their communication devices, but no one raised their hand for more than ten seconds.

Instead, the customers all cast strange glances at the veiled lady who had just called out her price, as if her behavior was truly that of a freak.

——In fact, this is true.

—While there are certainly many wealthy people at this auction, the reason why the wealthy are wealthy is not only because they have more ways to make money, but also because they have a more rational view of money than the average person, and they always believe that everything is worth its price.

A bottle of Romanée-Conti costs a million dollars; rich people can open it whenever they want because that's the price the wine is worth. It's just sitting there, and whoever comes to buy it will pay that price.

The wealthy can buy antique paintings worth tens of millions of dollars without hesitation because the price of art and cultural relics is already assigned to them at the moment of the transaction. As long as the transaction is legal, the transaction itself has value.

But with people... that's a different story.

While there are indeed many outstanding women in this world who can be coveted and worth tens or even hundreds of millions simply because of their physical bodies, their wealth is not simple and plain; it is all closely related to their status, fame, and even publicity and packaging.

Even if a little girl sold in a human trafficking base has fair skin, is cute, has soft hair, and a unique temperament, she's still just an ordinary girl with no status, no fame, and no packaging or promotion. Pretty girls are always available if you're willing to look. Usually, a little girl like this can be worth a few million based on her looks and temperament, which is already considered quite good. But now, someone is actually asking for ten million for her...

The wealthy value profit and loss above all else. Prices may be high, but they must get something in return. As for being ripped off, they are absolutely unwilling to be taken advantage of.

This price is far beyond what customers are considering.

At the other end of the room, Admiral Lian and Admiral Ling exchanged a knowing smile. Admiral Lian wanted to raise his hand to continue bidding, but Admiral Ling held his hand back.

Admiral Ling shook her head helplessly at Admiral Lian. Admiral Lian pouted, looked at Admiral Haoding who was sitting between them without saying a word, and could only shrug and sigh regretfully. Then she crossed her legs, propped her chin on her hand, and looked at Xiaobai on the stage with a smile that seemed to enjoy watching the show.

On stage, Xiao Bai's face was flushed, his ears were trembling slightly, and he couldn't lift his head at all.